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When the Night (2011)

When the Night poster
Original title
Quando la notte
Directed by
Cristina Comencini
Genre
drama film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 48m
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 41 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A single mother takes her young son to a remote mountain village for the summer. There she starts a troubled relationship with a local man who carries his own dark past.

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What happens

When the Night (Original Italian: Quando la notte) is a 2011 Italian drama film directed by Cristina Comencini, and based upon Comencini's novel of the same title. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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